Renate Rennebach

Renate Rennebach , b. Hartwig, (* 29. November 1947 in Berlin ) is a former long-time SPD - Bundestag (1990-2002).

After training as a hairdresser and working for a long time as a clerk at IKON AG, Rennebach joined the SPD in 1975. Here she was active for a long time in the SPD working group for employee issues and was a member of the federal executive committee for 14 years.

When the residents of West Berlin were also entitled to vote in the federal elections after reunification, she ran for the first time for the Bundestag in 1990 in constituency 253 ( Berlin - Steglitz-Zehlendorf ), but lost 30.2% to the CDU candidate Gero Pfennig , who was 51.2% of the vote came.

Rennebach, however, moved into the Bundestag via the SPD's state list and quickly made a name for himself in the field of sect policy and trust matters .

In 1994 she moved back into the Bundestag via the SPD's state list after she lost again to Pfennig in her constituency, this time with 32.5% to 47.5% of the vote.

After she was only elected to number 9 on the state list in 1998 , it was expected that she would miss a renewed entry into the Bundestag, since her constituency (253 Berlin-Zehlendorf - Steglitz) was considered a stronghold of the CDU.

Surprisingly, however, she achieved a vote increase of more than ten percent of the votes, so that she was ahead of her opponent Uwe Lehmann-Brauns (39.4%) with 42.7% of the votes and was able to win her constituency directly for the first time. As a result, she also belonged to the German Bundestag in the 14th legislative period.

However, in the context of the constituency nominations for the 2002 Bundestag election, she was defeated by her party challenger Klaus Uwe Benneter , so that in 2002 she resigned from the Bundestag after twelve years of membership.

On January 1st, 2003 Renate Rennebach founded the "Renate Rennebach Foundation iG for victims of ritual violence".

Web links

• Homepage of the Renate Rennebach Foundation
• Biography at the German Bundestag